Combined door-hanger



(No Model.)

W. ORONK. UOMBINED'DOOR HANGER RAIL,AND RAIL BRAOKET.

No. 384,236. Patented June 12', 1888.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM ORONK, OF HAVANA, NEW YORK.

COMBINED DOOR-HANGER, RAIL, AND RAIL-BRACKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,236, dated June 12, 1888.

Application filed October 10, 1887. Serial No. 251,907.

To all whom, it 12m concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CnoNK, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Havana, in the county of Schuyler and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements inaCombined Door-Hanger, Rail, and Rail-Bracket; and I do hereby de clare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in that class of completed devices employed for suspending rolling gates or doors; and the invention consists in certain details ofconstruction and combination ofparts, as illustrated in the drawings, and hereinafter claimed.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the-whole device embodying myinvention cutting in section the door and rail. Fig. 2 is a front elevation ofrail and rail supports 0r brackets. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of rail with united form of bracketsupporting rail ends asjoined together. Fig. 4 is a perspective view ofunited brackets.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the door, to which is secured a hangerstrap, B, bent in U form over the sheave G, and by the proper inward continuation e of the back arm, (I, ofthe hanger, thus made to carry closely to the back of the track or railf as it moves to and fro, the sheave O is prevented from jumping or getting off the track.

G- H represent bracketarms that may or may not have their front ends united, but are dependent upon each other in supporting the rail and door. When chosen to be constructed separately, the one indicated by G takes a horizontal position with a downturned back lip or supporting-foot, J. The one indicated by H has also a bent supporting-toot, J, upturned, from which it takes an inclined downward position, both arms G H having an upturned front lip, '5, meeting alike in a Vertical plane, and back of and to which the rail-section f is secured for the purpose of restricting vertical (No model.)

strain at the meeting ends of rail-sections f. I modify the construction or make a bracket of these brackets by having the upturned front lip of each united together into one solid lip of double width, at the footof which its arms may separate to project, otherwise unchanged and as heretofore described, singly. flhus made this solid lip is required to be wide enough to secure the end of track-sections thereto by the rivets n 0, asshown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, and sustain them thereon to a level at their meeting ends.

I am aware that knee-shaped rail supports or brackets have been made having a brace connecting the arms of the knee. Such I do not claim, broadly; but

IVhat I do claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a barn-door-rail support, the disconnected arms G H, the arm Ghorizontally constructed with an upturned front lip, i, and a bent foot or rest at its attaching eud,the arm H angularly constructed, having an upturned frontlip, z, and an upturned foot or rest at its attaching end, in combination with rail-section f, resting upon and secured to the back of said lips, substantially as shown and described.

2. In combination, the rail-bracket having an upturned front lip, 1', back of and to which railsectionsff, having square abutting ends resting upon the bracket,arc secured, said lip at its foot having an angular arm,H,and ahorizontal arm,G, verging tl1erefrom,and each terminating in a bent foot or rest at its attaching end, substantially as described.

3. A door-hanger consisting of a suitable frame bent in U form over the sheave C, and having the angularly-bentend ebeneath said sheave, at the extremity of its back arm, in combination with rail-sections ff, secured to front lip or lips, i, of a support having arms G H, in pairs, angularly and horizontally constructed and each terminating in a bent foot or rest at its attaching end.

\VILLIAM GRONK.

Witnesses:

E. HORTON, O. F. CARRIER. 

